i just made the dopest pastis with dried strawberries to add fruit…four anises….and saffron to finish…. i’m gonna finish it with some worm wood and hopefully will end up with some dope absinthe….

i capped the proof at 80 but at the moment the flavor harmony makes up for it….hopefully i can get the wormwood effect without a massive amount of bitter….

absinthe is mainly significant today because it used to be trendy….. if you really want to get messed up drink an infusion of Yohimbe bark….. a great african aphrodisiac…. i just got some but haven’t done anything with it…. and i’m told its like viagra and ecstasey at the same time….. but supposedly also easy to overdose on… = (

I have enjoyed reading all that has been said here about Absinthe, but I find that one fact is lacking.

No one has mentioned the fact that Absinthe is still illegal here in the United States.

Lucid is known not to be original enough to pass for an Absinthe since it is made with more synthetic ingredients than natural herbs, which is why the law allows it here at all.

However, people like Van, Oscar and the rest who indulged themselves to the point of misbehaving have it in their character to behave as they did; so if they did drink some other liquor and not absinthe, it would have made no difference in their lives.

A well distilled Absinthe makes one merry with special effects superior to intoxication, and these effects come from the combination of more than eight natural herbs of which wormwood and thujon are of insignificant levels.

I am not subscribing to the opinion that Absinthe makes people mad; what I have read is that due to the popularity of the special liquor, bootleggers and began producing bad Absinthe to the detriment of both drinkers and Absinthe itself.

I can tell you authoritatively that the real stuff is still being consumed here by those who know how to get it, and there is no case of any one of them lopping of his or her ear.

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